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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1925
Page
12
The article argues thrift is essential for financial success, defining thrift as spending some saving some and wasting none. It rejects the idea of spending freely without consequence and warns that save habits secure future needs, old age, and emergencies, while chasing easy systems fails.
In Princeton area social notes and local events list church youth program led by Miss Pearse Riner at 6 30 pm and a community meeting at Glenwood Park lower school building on Wednesday at 2 pm. Local residents visit relatives over Christmas with trips to Rocky Mount Fort Pierce and Fort Pierce Florida.
By Martin Sing congregation holds a service with scriptural lesson prayer offertory selections by Jocelyn violin and organ anthem There Were Shepherds by Earle choir hymn It Came Upon the Midnight Clear selections The Angel's Song by Laurenz vocal solo The Wondrous Story Wildermere Nellie Campbell quartet Silent Night Franz Greeber Mollie Bowing Angel Serenade violin solo Brage Lady Ruth and 8. B. Ogle duet I Come to Thee announcements hymn All Hail the Power of Jesus Name benediction Pastor Raff violin and organ Mrs T M Johnson director T M Johnson.
First Methodist led by Rev Z B Randall schedules Sunday school at 9 45 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 30 p m with morning seed sowing evening heartsree music and a young people service at 6 45 p m Presbyterian with Rev C J Phipps conducts 9 45 a m Sunday school 11 a m and 7 20 p m morning The Name of Jesus evening The Gifts of Peace special music at all services Christian Endeavor at 6 45 p m First Baptist with Rev B Ogle begins Sunday evening musical program Prelude Christmas Hosmer violin and organ hymn Hark the Herald Angels Sing
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Public offices were closed with little activity in Princeton. Rabbit hunting remains legal until next Thursday while quail partridge and pheasant season closed. Several animals stay unprotected during winter in West Virginia. News recalls Thomas Hughes of Athens, struck by paralysis Christmas Day, and notes his prominence as Bank of Athens director. Officers report a Christmas Day moonshine arrest tied to Leroy Williams and Nellie Williams in Giotto.
Mosby and Constable Dan Franklin were tried before Squire W. P. Haller at Matoaka, given thirty days in jail, and fined 100 dollars plus costs. The Palace Theatre has hired an orchestra of experienced New York musicians to play at all shows and perform intermission specialty acts. The Princeton high school quintets lost a double header to Alumni, 14 to 12 for the boys and 19 to 11 for the girls, with the alumni teams claiming both games. An exchange ad offers a Studebaker Special Six Sedan with six thousand five hundred miles for a good conditioned coupe plus cash.
W. A. Lowe on Mercer Street reports the death of a former Memorial Hospital Training School of Nurses graduate from 1922 after several weeks of illness. She leaves a large family including parents three brothers Limer Lowe Huntington C H Lowe Charleston and McKinley Lowe Columbus Ohio and six sisters Mrs S P Mitchell Wood Mrs W L Miller Orchard W Va Mrs R C Parley Beckley Ms W H Erwin Charleston Mrs K L Thompson and Mrs R R Smith Princeton.
For rent a four room flat with bath lights and water furnished at a reasonable price. Charles Whebey & Son, Second Street announce the listing. TRY A BOTTLE OF CHOC The new right. Charo cheer into Arinket's Wie beuiding Goupeiy.
Funeral service for Miss Hazel Lowe after illness will be at the First Baptist Church at 2 30 PM followed by interment in Oakwood cemetery. Rev. B. D. will conduct the church service. Miss Lowe was twenty four years old and the daughter of her family.
The Elks basetall team drills for a Tuesday January 12 game against the touring Swedes from Kansas. After a season opener win over Tazewell the Elks refine weaknesses while listing Pendle Rice Rhodes Bock Karnes and Marshall for the lineup. The Swedes tour the south with 100 games, previously 84 games last season going 72–12, facing teams like Wyoming Arizona Utah State New Mexico and more as their schedule includes Memphis Y M C A Vanderbilt and others.
The Rotary Club gathered for a holiday frolic at the Virginian Hotel led by the Boys Work Committee. Prizes were awarded in cracker eating and banana eating contests, a Christmas grab bag climaxed the evening, and Rotarians shared classifying articles drawn from behind a screen. Guest K. S. Bird of Gary attended the luncheon.
Paris reports horsemeat, once considered the poor man’s beef, rising to luxury status due to shortage of marketable horses. Prices quoted include 9.50 francs per pound for choice horsemeat, with pork chops at 5.00 francs, beef 9.00, and mutton 7.50. A tax of 1 franc 25 centimes per pound is cited as a price influence, while doctors endorse horsemeat for tuberculosis and anemia.
In Lamberhurst England the Rat Club pledges to pay for every rat tail turned in as part of its drive to curb the rodent problem.
Prominent sports figures die in 1925 across baseball football boxing track and more. Christy Mathewson Walter Camp Ebbets McKeever Fleischmann Day Ward Goodwin Crane Phelan Powers Villa Martin Shannon Siki Prinstein Lunghi Fogarty Caldwell Reid and others are noted for memorial services and obituaries as senior class of 1925 East River High School holds Alumni banquet with a yuletide program and festive menu.
George Henry Hubert, elder son of Princess Mary, is called the most borrowed baby in England. King George and Queen Mary adore him, loaning the child to Lord and Lady Harewood at Harewood House and to Curzon House for visits with relatives at Windsor and St James Palace.
Mercer County Farm Bureau members will gather at the county courthouse in Princeton Saturday at 2 PM. The meeting will plan a carload order for pyretol, a compact explosive treated as safer and cheaper than dynamite for farm use, with limits on quantity and details to be announced. Discussion will cover cooperative seed buying, seed shortages, and plans for a spring warehouse for seeds and fertilizers.
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